Cummins Emission Control Software and Hardware

[HBarlow]

This subject has come up several times and I have posted more than once what a Cummins, Inc. spokesman told me in an e-mail a few months ago. I even posted my e-mailed question and the e-mail reply I received from someone at Cummins, Inc.

I had the good fortune and pleasure of speaking with a woman engineer at Cummins a few minutes ago and found that what I had posted, which was based on the written words of someone at Cummins, Inc. was completely wrong.

Cummins is responsible for the emissions hardware and software installed on our 6.7L Cummins engines. I guess the fancy "BlueTec" name and logo is nothing more than advertising hype from Dodge.

The Cummins engineer told me that when I asked the question earlier this year it was possibly a little too early in the learning curve with the customer service staff that is responsible for answering inquiries such as mine, or possibly, my message was routed to the wrong department.

She told me that all the regeneration equipment and software is, in fact, provided by Cummins.

I apologize for putting bad information on the TDR. I didn't like the answer I got a few months ago, was somewhat skeptical about it, but accepted it at face value because it was in writing from Cummins. My gut feeling at the time and up until earlier today was it seemed very odd that Cummins would build the engines and Daimler, MB, or Dodge would design and build the emissions control and regeneration software. In fact, that was wrong.

My faith in Cummins and my Dodge is restored. I have confidence now that even if the regeneration software and hardware are not currently perfect, Cummins will make it as close to perfect as they can over time.